After many late nights, numerous lashings in autumnal downpours and a fair few miles on the bike, Singletrack Issue 77 is done! As is traditional we’ve brought you a sneaky peek beforehand, but the real deal is now finished and streaming off the printing presses ready to head out to subscribers, bikeshops and the high street come the 25th October. Now’s your chance to check out what’s going to be contained within its 148 heavyweight pages…

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Autumn is ace - shot by Dan Barham

“Most of the time, I’ll head out with a specific vision for a shot I want, or at least a rough idea I’d like to shoot. This one’s a little different – technically I was in the Yukon on vacation, but had smuggled a small SLR into my pack – after all, you never know when you’ll come across a scene like this one, on Montana mountain, thirty minutes outside of Whitehorse. Sylvain Turcotte navigates the rocks and fireweeds of ‘Upper Tin Cup’.”

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Trails on the island of the White Mountain

Not all of our contributors have English as a first language but that doesn’t stop them writing great stories about riding. Here’s an unedited excerpt from Dominika Skonieczna and Daniel Klawczyński’s story on Tenerife.

“Savouring with a long-ago-seen sun and a temperature of 24-26 Celsius degrees we bask on the rocks like geckoes. We don’t give a damn about anything. Corporations, work and stuff like that we left almost 5000km away from here. We’ve been dreaming about a moment like that! Simply a paradise! The punchline we make by having a nice ride down to a small ocean bay, where we can admire the local chicks. Some are laying straight as the Mother Nature created them. But we keep the distance – we don’t want to scare away them.”